2007-08 Autism Research
Every July, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee publishes a Summary of Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders Research.
2007 Summary of Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders Research
2008 Summary of Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders Research
Below are some key studies published in 2008;
“Linkage, Association, and Gene Expression Analyses Identify CNTNAP2 as an Autism-Susceptibility Gene.” –American Journal of Human Genetics, Alarcon, Abrahams, et al. (2008)
“A Common Genetic variant in the neurexin superfamily member CNTNAP2 increases Familial Risk of Autism”—American Journal of Human Genetics, Arking, Cutler, et al (2008)
“Peripheral Biomarkers in Autism: Secreted Amyloid Precursor Protein-Alpha as a Probably Key Player in Early Diagnosis”—Inter. Journal Clinical Exp. Medicine, Bailey, Giunta, et al (2008)
“Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis and Resequencing of Contactin Associate Protein-Like 2 in Autism Spectrum Disorders” –American Journal of Human Genetics, Bakkaloglu, O’Roak, et al (2008)
“Fragile X: Translation in Action”—Neuropshcyopharmacology, Bear, Dolen et al (2008)
“Autism: Maternally derived antibodies specific for fetal brain proteins”—Neurotoxicology, Braunschweig, Ashwood, et al (2008)
“MeCP2, A Key Contributor to Neurological Disease, Activates and Represses Transcription”—Science, Chahrour, Jung et al (2008)
“Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Proteins Control Axon Formation” –Genes Development, Choi, DiNardo, et al (2008)
“Reversal of Learning Deficits in a Ts2+/- Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis”—Nature Medicine, Ehninger, Han, et al (2008)
“Thimerosal Disappears but Autism Remains”—Archives of General Psychiatry, Fombonne (2008)
“Infant and Toddler Oral and Manual Motor Skills Predict Later Speech Fluency in Autism” –Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Gernsbacher, Sauer et al (2008)
“Can Children with Autism Recover? If so, How?”—Neuropsychology Review, Helt, Kelley, et al (2008)
“Lack of Association between Measles Virus Vaccine and Autism with Enteropathy: A Case-Control Study”—PLOS ONE, Hornig, Briese, et al (2008)
“Absence of Preferential Looking to the Eyes of Approaching Adults Predicts Level of Social Disability in 2-year old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder”. –Archives of General Psychiatry, Jones, Carr, et al (2008)
“Recurrent 16p11.2 Microdeletions in Autism”—Human Molecular Genetics, Kumar, KaraMohamed, et al (2008)
“Variation in Season of Birth in Singleton and Multiple Births Concordant for Autism Spectrum Disorders”—Paediatric Pernatal Epidemiology, Lee, Newschaffer (2008)
“Racial/Ethnic Disparties in the Identification of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”—American Journal of Public Health, Mandell, Wiggins, et al (2008)
“Structural Variation of Chromosomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder” –American Journal of Human Genetics, Marshall, Noor, et al (2008)
“Stereotypies and Hyperactivity in Rhesus Monkeys Exposed to IgG from Mothers of Children with Autism”—Brain Behavior Immunology, Martin, Ashwood, Braunschweig, Cabanlit, Van de Water, Amaral (2008)
“Association of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders and Loss of Family Income”—Pediatrics, Montes & Halterman. (2008)
“Identifying autism Loci and Genes by Tracing Recent Shared Ancestry”—Science, Morrow, Yoo, et al (2008)
“Mortality and Causes of Death in Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Update”—Autism, Mouridsen, Bronnum-Hansen, et al (2008)
“Screening Strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care”—Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Pinto-Martin, Young, Mandell, Poghosyan, Giarelli, Levy (2008)
“Continuing Increases in Autism Reported to California’s Developmental Services System: Mercury in Retrograde”.—Archives of General Psychiatry, Schechter, Grether (2008)
“Antibodies Against Fetal Brain in Sera of Mothers with Autistic Children”—Journal of Neuroimmunology, Singer, Morris, Gause, Gillin, Crawford, Zimmerman (2008)
“Association Between Microdeletion and Microduplication at 16p11.2 and Autism”—New England Journal of Medicine, Weiss, Shen, et al (2008)
“Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Sporadic Schizophrenia” –Nature Genetics, Xu, Roose, e al (2008)